At the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, he has been directing the unique academic, research, and training activities in the broad areas of defence science and technology, with a wide spectrum of participation of senior officers from DRDO, Army, Air Force, Navy, Indian Ordnance Factories, Directorate General of Quality Assurance, public and private sector organisations, several friendly foreign countries such as Ethiopia, Burma, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Singapore, Malaysia and civilian students from general public. His specific initiatives to strengthen defence education and research at this University are in the areas of initiation of collaborative efforts at the Internatonal level, organisation of several long and short courses and International Conferences of specific relevance to Indian defence forces and organisations, nurturing a conducive research environment in the areas of defence science and technology, and initiation of new Postgraduate programs of relevance to defence technologies such as cyber security, materials science and engineering for defence applications. The University offers only Master’s and Doctoral programs; other than a number of short and long courses for armed forces and defence scientists/technologists.